Category: Waterways

We Light a Candle for the Crew of the Chief William Saulis

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Lighting a Candle for You

The Chief William Saulis is a Scallop Dragger out of Digby, Nova Scotia. Today there is a search being conducted after a Distress Call was sent at about 6am this morning. It may seem strange, or even opportunistic for a Farm Website to write about this, but truth is when You live in Nova Scotia, come from a Fisherman’s Family, and live only a few hundred yards from the Salt, the Salt gets in your Blood. 

When You’re from here, You know the risks, the men, and women, who fish upon these waters are brave, hard working, and seaworthy. When tragedy hits, we all Pray! 

So, sitting here, looking out my candle lit window, my mind drifts to years past, many years past, when if this happened the people ashore would go down to the shore and light lamps and candles to pray and help light their way. Hoping against hope, that all will return safe!

Our minds turn to the Families, even our own families, for we’re all in this together. Never knowing when times will be good, or when tragedy will come upon. We all hold one another dear. We share their fear, and we pray! 

So, even here, at Briden Farm, overlooking the Head of the Tide here in Bear River, We Light a Candle for the Crew of the Chief William Saulis, and for their Families as well. Praying For The Best. 

 

Franklin Brook at Briden Farm, Bear River, Nova Scotia

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Franklin Brook at Briden Farm

Franklin Brook flows through the back end of Briden Farm and into the West Branch Bear River on Parker Road.

A word should be included here about West Branch Bear River, which according to Ray’s Corner, and the post, “A Good Place to Grow Up OR A River Runs Through It – Nova Scotia Version”, is also shown on some modern maps as Franklin River. Probably because it flows from the headwaters of Franklin Lake. The River leaves Franklin Lake and flows through Lake Jolly, and the Tobeatic, before meeting Franklin Brook just above Parker Road; and continuing downstream to flow under River Road at the corner of Briden Farm before flowing into the main branch of Bear River at the Head of The Tide. Upstream of the Village of Bear River. 

Franklin Brook flows through the back end of Briden Farm providing a nice walk through bottom lands and hardwoods which lay between Parker Road and Bear River’s Gulch Power Station. Road access to Franklin Brook is possible, but challenging, from the bridge on Parker Road it is possible but there is no actual parking and the section upstream of the bridge can be tricky to maneuver. 

In the future we hope to develop walking tours of Briden Farm, including the bottomlands along Franklin Brook.